Direct evidence of 1,900 years of indigenous silver production in the Lake Titicaca Basin of Southern Peru

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 41, 2009, Pages 17280-17283

  Schultze, Carol A ^a   Stanish, Charles ^a   Scott, David A ^a   Rehren, Thilo ^b   Kuehner, Scott ^c   Feathers, James K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Craft specialization; Metallurgy

Indexed keywords

SILVER;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CEREMONY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; LAKE; METAL INDUSTRY; PERU; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACTS; CERAMICS; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MINING; PERU; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SILVER;

EID: 70350465134     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907733106     Document Type: Article

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